Bad Teacher vs Green Lantern: Film Face Off

Ryan Reynolds dons the famous suit for comic book flick Green Lantern while
Cameron Diaz looks for a new sugar daddy in Bad Teacher – but which will win this week’s film face off?

Green Lantern takes on Bad Teacher in this week’s film face offStoryThe latest superhero movie to hit our screens is Green Lantern, which stars Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan, a cocky pilot with daddy issues.When he manages to destroy an expensive plane he speaks to a purple alien who hands him a ring, giving him the chance to become the first human Green Lantern.

Cue lots of fight sequences and a simmering love story with Blake Lively from Gossip Girl.

Bad Teacher stars Cameron Diaz as Elizabeth Halsey, a school staff member who tries to chat up Justin Timberlake ‘s loaded supply teacher when she’s dumped by her sugardaddy.

Turns out this is a bad move as this pits her against the school’s perfect teacher, played by Lucy Punch.

Winner:Give us crime busting green-suited aliens over school domestics any day – Green Lantern wins.

What we say

Green Lantern: Mistake-a-mondo, Martin (Campbell- the director), old fruit. All youâve done is make what should be a fun, throwaway comic-book caper feel as enjoyable as sitting an English exam on a sunny afternoon.

A more-than-decent support cast including Peter Sarsgaard, Angela Bassett and Tim Robbins swiftly drown within this tedious suck-fest. (Larushka Ivan-Zadeh)

Bad Teacher: Diaz is a good fit for the role of the sharp-tongued, self-serving Elizabeth, whose lessons generally involve popping on a movie and pulling her jumper over her hungover head. Thereâs a faint air of Nicole Kidman in To Die For about her brazen, focused ambition, although this is a good deal less dark and devious.

Much like one of Elizabethâs classes, thereÂ are no lessons to be learned, but this mischievous, borderline amoral little number passes the time in a surprisingly amusing fashion. (Anna Smith)

Winner:Obviously Bad Teacher wins this round.

What you say

Sammcpheeters (via Twitter): ‘Wouldn’t you rather see a documentary on bladder cancer?’

gordsellar: ‘I expected Green Lantern not to be good. But I didn’t expect it to be soooo bad.’

kasiafierce (via Twitter): ‘Got to see a pre-screening of Bad Teacher yesterday…super funny, Cameron Diaz is so great in it!’